Some kids grow up early

[pne]

Amy just now: "Ich hab' meine Tage. Besser ich baden." (I have my period now. I'd better take a bath.)

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[arthur-sc-king.livejournal.com]

Talk about precocious!

Also, so "Tage" (~="days"?) is colloquial for period in German? Interesting.

[pne.livejournal.com]

Also, so "Tage" (~="days"?) is colloquial for period in German?

Specifically "meine Tage" ("my days"), but yes. (Or other possessive forms e.g. "her days", "your days".)

[lnbw.livejournal.com]

Very interesting -- I didn't know that! I know enough German for that, so I read through the sentence and puzzled over it a bit before looking at the translation.

[kait-the-great.livejournal.com]

Interesting! I know in English and French the term is based on the month-long cycle (menstruation/règles) -- is Tage a nickname, like period, or more "scientific", like menstruation?

/well that might be an icky question -- good thing we're all adults :P

[pne.livejournal.com]

is Tage a nickname, like period, or more "scientific", like menstruation?

I'd say it's pretty colloquial.

The more formal term is probably "Regel" (literally, "rule"); you might also hear "Ich habe meine Regel".

"Regelblutung" ("rule bleeding", i.e. "menstrual bleeding"), I'm fairly certain, is a "scientific" term (i.e. appropriate to that sort of register).

/well that might be an icky question

Possibly. I seem to have an unusually high tolerance for that sort of thing, so things which some people label TMI I merely find interesting to read about; that makes it hard for me to decide where other people tend to get uneasy.

I also like talking about pregnancy and childbirth when women are discussing that kind of subject, and find it interesting; apparently, that's also a range of topics most men find somewhere between uninteresting and icky.

[schnurble.livejournal.com]

I think Regel[blutung] comes from regelmässig (regular), not rule...

The scientific term in German would be Menstruation